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• will says:

  11 Jan11 January 13:42

  Selling avios points surely is very strange legal territory. AGL effectively sell you something for a defined cash price that they can devalue at any moment unilaterally without any obligation to offer a refund.

  Has a devaluation of previously purchased points ever been tested in law?

  It would surely be a huge reassurance and at least an attempt to transparently cover liability by defining an annual and cumulative rate of devaluation in the terms (eg in line with inflation or something else broadly linked to the cost of travel)

  Of course there’s then the can of worms with the stealth devaluation of “other charges”

  Most people on here probably know what they are getting in for more or less with this. Is this true of the average avios account holder?

  • Mikeact says:

    11 Jan11 January 15:34

    Probably not, if my neighbours are anything to go by.

  • Erico1875 says:

    11 Jan11 January 19:14

    We are mere plebs. Who could predict Liz Truss would tank the pensions and then fk the housing market.
    I collect and buy Avios based on how I see value NOW.
    Any devaluation, I recon will be pro rata to prices, inflation

• Matthias says:

  11 Jan11 January 13:54

  First 300k Avios is around 0.9p per Avios. Remainder is around 1.8p

  There’s a link on the page with the exact details

• oldak says:

  11 Jan11 January 16:57

  I haven’t used Balance Boost before. If I Balance Boost 100,000 Avios I earned last year at three times to receive 300,000 Avios for 0.92p/Avios, when is the next time I will be able to Balance Boost Avios at 0.92p (i.e. when does the 300,000 Avios allowance renew)?

  • Rob says:

    11 Jan11 January 18:23

    The ANNUAL cap is 300k. The question is whether this boost counts towards 2023 (as you’re boosting 2023 earned Avios) or 2024.

    • HH says:

      11 Jan11 January 20:00

      Seems to be 2024, as I had boosted by 80k last week and it would only let me boost by another 220k at 0.92p. So now all my 2024 spend will remain unboosted unless they run this again in Jan 25.

• Paul says:

  11 Jan11 January 20:42

  The IHG offer is working seamlessly. I saved 15k points on a stay in Aus in Feb. However there is also reduction on cash segment of the “points plus cash” as well. It may be due to the points element rolling into the cash but whichever you work it seams to total a 15 % saving

  • Rob says:

    11 Jan11 January 21:14

    Thanks, will adjust the article. I wrote this before it went live.

• tomasz says:

  12 Jan12 January 13:12

  Hello,
  Could you guys explain how you calculate the boosted avios, please?
  Example: I have 250
  3xboost will be 750 for £6.90
  Does it mean that at the end I will have 1000 (750+250) avios for the price of 0.0092 (£6.90/750)?
  Thanks for the help.

  • Rob says:

    12 Jan12 January 13:13

    You can buy 3x the amount you earned in 2023 (during this offer). Normally you can buy 3x what you earned in the last 30 days.

    If you earned 250 Avios in 2023 the new promo will let you buy 750, at 0.92p.

    • tomasz says:

      12 Jan12 January 14:25

      Thanks a lot Rob!

    • Peter says:

      15 Jan15 January 10:23

      Balance boost, accessed fron specific email, still working today 15/01

• Charlotte says:

  13 Jan13 January 07:45

  Hi Rob, the 2023 balance boost feature is not working today (it was yesterday!). Today we only see the last 30 days transactions as normal. Yesterday it showed 2023 in full (I did not do it yesterday as was “sleeping on it”!! Anyway you can use your magic powers and step in and help to get this fixed before the offer expires at midnight today? I have tried to get in contact with balance boost but do not seem to be able to! 15 days response time on the “contact us” type form! Thank you very much.

• Wendy says:

  13 Jan13 January 08:17

  Yesterday I went into Balance Boost and all of my 2023 points were there and available to boost. Today, they’ve disappeared and only the last 30 days are available to boost, yet the 2023 offer is still live. Anyone else having this problem?

• Traumahawk007 says:

  13 Jan13 January 09:08

  Boosted mine yesterday but tried to do for my Wife and only showing the last month to boost. Must have a bug in the system. Can somebody else have a look.

  • Kris says:

    13 Jan13 January 09:45

    I’m getting the same. Only flights and Credit Card / Bank Account earnings from last month. Clicked on “contact” and put details in. Helpful message saying a reply will come in the next 15 days.

  • QFlyer says:

    13 Jan13 January 10:02

    Yeah thread on Flyertalk is saying the same. I’m only seeing the last 30 days again now, despite the offer still being live for around 14 hours. Lets’ see how many complaints this generates for BA, even when they try and do something right they screw it up.

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